Re: Portable XY

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Quoting Fred Weiner :
Why not use ? Isn't that the editor's directory? In other words,
what's the advantage of , the current D:\PATH?
 includes both the path and the EXEcutable's filename; if you
use  you must parse out the filename. Easy way to do this
parsing is:
>JM 2.GetPathQ2 ;*;
(which puts the path only into S/G 50); we use it all the time in U2.
You can do that in STARTUP.INT, but only *after* U2 has been loaded.
The advantage of  is that it's elegantly simple -- no parsing
required. Just be sure that, at the time you invoke , Editor's
dir is the current dir -- and it *will* be the current dir, unless a
ChDir command has been executed before  is used. If you hold
off on any ChDir commands until the very end of STARTUP.INT, you
should be safe.

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Carl Distefano
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